Method and system for monitoring printed material produced by a printing press

Abstract

A method for monitoring printed material which is produced by a printing press and includes images printed on a paper web. The method includes the steps of determining, in an original, reference values for chosen parameters of the printed material, detecting the values of these parameters in the corresponding printed image, comparing the detected values to the reference values, and performing a correction when a difference in these values is found during the comparison. The chosen parameters may include the colours in the printed material, the location of the images in the printed material and / or the colour register of the printed material. A system for performing this method includes a reference value determining device, a detecting device and a comparing and correcting device connected to the reference value determining device and the detecting device.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The invention relates to a method for monitoring printed material which is produced by a printing press and comprises one or more images printed on a substrate, in particular a paper web.

[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art

[0004] In a printing process, for instance a rotation offset printing process, a large number of identical copies is made on the basis of an original, for instance an illustration or a text. It is of great importance here that the images in the printed material are transferred to the substrate for printing, generally a paper web, as far as possible in colour-true, correctly positioned and consistent manner. “Colour-true” is here understood to mean that the printed colours correspond precisely with the colours of the original which is being duplicated. This is especially important for advertisers, who increasingly use a colour as a mark and therefore wish to see it printed correctly. The correct posi...

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